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Bill Maher and Michael Moore got in a heated exchange Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and eventually made a pricey on-air bet — the stakes: a trip to Hawaii — over a factual dispute. And, as it turns out, Maher will be footing the bill for Moore’s upcoming luau.
The conversation started friendly enough…

The proverb “Don’t speak ill of the dead” is credited to Chilon the Wise, the same Greek sage from 500 B.C. who said “Do not laugh at a person in misfortune.” Chilon, no surprise, has never been a fan of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher most likely due to philosophical differences with the show’s host.
On Friday…

Bill Maher has lobbed the latest volley in his Twitter scuffle with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, mocking the Michigan Democrat’s call for a boycott of his HBO show by asking whether she’d support a boycott of her own political party.
Yesterday, Maher tweeted, “Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away. But…

Fresh off being barred from Israel and then turning down a humanitarian visit to the West Bank, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has now called for a boycott of HBO’s Bill Maher, who has termed her Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts a “bullshit purity test.”
Tlaib tweeted that she was tired of folks like Maher "discrediting…

Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Bill Maher takes his material to places that other talk-show hosts fear to tread. Case in point: a week after the cellblock suicide of Jeffrey Epstein the disgraced money manager and sex-trafficking defendant’s final moments of life were already punchline fodder for the…

President Donald Trump’s executive apparently was interrupted by Real Time today, and POTUS clapped back at its “wacko” host’s “many false statements.”
Bill Maher pulled no punches on myriad topics during his live HBO show Friday night — gun violence, a possible looming recession, the national mood and so on — but the…

Bill Maher may be the only prominent political commentator in America who is loudly and proudly rooting for a recession. The acerbic host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher knows that a major recession would sabotage the U.S. economy but he says it would be well worth it if the downturn also torpedoed the reelection…

The New York Comedy Festival has announced the lineup of headliners for its 16th annual edition this November, a roster including late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher and Trevor Noah.
More than 200 comedians, sketch performers, TV hosts and podcasters will perform in more than 100 shows at various venues…

One day after Marianne Williamson’s bristled during a sharp exchange with Anderson Cooper on CNN, the Democratic presidential candidate who also got a feisty reception from the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Maher had crowed about the booking early in the show (when he announced that “the candidate everyone…

Bill Maher says there’s “overcrowding” among the Democratic presidential field and some of the candidates should "get the f*ck out." He weighed in on this week’s two-night Democratic debate and said time’s up for half of the 20 candidates who qualified for the match-up.
"Look, there's too many people in this race…

Bill Maher closed out the 500th episode of his HBO seriesReal Time with Bill Maher with a bruising appraisal of the Democratic Party’s feckless options for 2020 and a point-by-point explanation of why there is one (and only one) “sure-thing winner” for the opposition party: Oprah Winfrey.
“I am telling you, at this…

Daddy issues were front and center on tonight’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as HBO’s Friday night franchise celebrated Father’s Day weekend by mocking the nation’s presidential papa as the antithesis of patriarchal integrity and parental responsibility. “Republicans really see Trump as a father figure,” Maher…